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From Erasmus Alvey Darwin   1 April [1870?]1

1 Ap.

Dear Charles

In selling you only pay Brokerage, & I have looked at two sales in my accts when the Broke was 12[per cent] Bk on £2533.6.8. on the selling price.

Your financial operations excite my envy beyond words. The L & N W2 are issuing 4[per cent] Deb Stock & you get it free of all charges, but pay the interest that has accrued & so receive the half years interest entire.

Yours ED

1
The year is conjectured from a pencil note on the letter.
2
London and North Western Railway Company. CD sold his stock in this company in 1852 (CD’s Investment book (Down House MS)).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-7159,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-7159